Three little mystery knives

thejamppa

thejamppa

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Hello everyone!

I found these little mystery knives sitting in whole bunch of rusted puukko's, souvenier knives and other more or less broken or crap pile. I see how much I can restore these mystery knives and who made them and where. everyone's tang has rust covered spot with stamp, except up most has visible: many, which I think is Germany.

They probably are not indeed worth of $16 I paid all of them together but this gives me nice little mystery to solve and test my skills at restoring bit.

I suspect these are 60's or 70's cheap knives from West Germany. The whole more rusted, that's more mystery. Even its in worst shape, its quality seems tad greater than others.

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Hi,

They look like fun finds. I like the scales on the middle one. Are they plastic or wood? I find the aged look of them quite appealing.

Dale
 
That in middle, its scales are most likely howllow plastic at the feeling of them. Awl and cork screw openers are nearly useless due excessive play, however main blade is surprisingly good in there.

Now the rusted one I finally got all plades open after removing lot's of rust.I managed remove scales: Heavy duty material. took heavy beating, plastic like but very flexible. Solid brass pivot... This ain't no cheap knife. I managed fixed few problems in there too. Major one was that small knife blade never met its back spring. However I managed use bit hammer, bit flat end screw driver to locate places in proper places and fix the bulged end.

Edit: Picture of 2 hours progress with Mr Rusty. It infact starts looking like a knife. Mainblade says it has been used alot sometimes. This has definately been a user and certainly is older than I am. No stainless steel, even backsrpings are carbon steel I suspect.

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I let WD40 du lubing for now and see when I continue cleaning. Now 75% rust is is gone. I really should take this knife apart but I have no tools. Some tools have even snap now. Main blades back spring has become sluggish, probably excessive susting and rust is still between back spring and liners preventing natural movement. I doubt this ever becomes a user but I hope to save as much as possible from this and give it a good retirement days what it deserves.
 
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The top one to me looks to say Camp King which I think was china made? Or cheaper Imperial. Not sure.
 
top one has camp knife on its handles. Its made in germany. Its only one that has readable tang stamp. Inlays are plastic wrapper and handles are thin metal with has level folfed on main body each end. Classical post WWII german made affordable pocket knife and when there was shortages from materials.

edit: I got tang stamp out from the middle knife: Garantie Stahl, so its german too. Guarantee Steel stamp doesn't mean much but at least we know its german. Probably 50's and 60's. Once joints are oiled, this might make even a user.
 
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